Identity in Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North :: Season Migration North

Character in Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration toward the North Period of Migration toward the North by Tayeb Salih recounts to the narrative of a man scanning for a character he was uninformed he had lost. Through his developing comprehension of Mustafa Sa'eed's life, the focal character in the long run accommodates his own personality clashes. All through Salih's tale the principle character's personality is indistinct. While the peruser finds out much about his experience: instructive, familial, and proficient, his name is never referenced. A last name is utilized concerning his family, however is never concerned him. In once occasion he is alluded to by another character as effendi (85). This expression, be that as it may, is an Arabic title generally equal to sir instead of a name. The focal character's anonymity serves to concentrate consideration on another character with whom he builds up an uncomfortable companionship: Mustafa Sa'eed. Mustafa depends the primary character with his undertakings after his demise, including the way in to a private chamber. At the point when the focal character goes into the baffling room and reveals Mustafa's past, the personality strife gets obvious: †¦out of the obscurity there rose a grimacing face with pressed together lips that I knew however couldn't put. I moved towards it with detest in my heart. It was my foe Mustafa Sa'eed. The face grew†¦ and I ended up standing up close and personal with myself. †¦a image of me glaring at my face from a mirror. (135) A few equals are drawn between the focal character and Mustafa Sa'eed. Both communicate in English and had concentrated in London. Despite the fact that the focal character had experienced childhood in the town, his instruction and time abroad had made him as much an untouchable as Sa'eed. After observing his own appearance in the haziness, he trusts it to be Mustafa, who he had developed to loathe. As he draws nearer to the object of his contempt, he finds that he is standing vis-à-vis with himself. Mustafa speaks to him all that he loathes in himself.